Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hindenburg Boot. At the fair the first sight to greet him was the "Hindenburg Boot"?17 feet high, with a sole six feet long, equipped with a barbed spur-wheel two and a half feet in diameter. Six Doebeln shoemakers had taken seven months to construct it from the hides of ten oxen. Touched, the Herr President expressed his appreciation of the compliment thus paid him. It was constructed with still another purpose in view however?to commemorate the 600th anniversary of the founding of the Doebeln Cobblers' Guild...
...Fair. Observers opined that this traditional "sample fair" has visibly begun to lose its prestige because of the increased preference shown by foreign buyers for purely private dealings, not necessarily in the spring when the fair is held...
...Cave Man. The advent of a rough laborer into the apartment of a lazily rich woman starts off a fair comedy film. The rest shows how she washed him up and how he knocked a lot of people down...
...based essentially on knowledge of the rules of the game. It contains a masterly tabloid exegesis of the law in such finical situations as a player's throwing his cap at a passing ball, two runners on one base, premature decisions (e. g., a bunt declared foul rolls fair), infield flies, balls batted out of sight. There is a catachism of 51 articles: "Don't be anxious, too quick, tactless, argumentative, vindictive, officious. . . . Remember the spectators. . . . Listen to reason. . . . Smile. ..." The crouching and erect postures are compared. The double-and single umpire systems are explained. Anecdotes abound. Upon the students...
...financial question, he may feel that his sporting chance has been supplanted by a plutocratic rule. His loyalty will not waver, but he may feel hurt that his chance to cheer for, fight for, and support his team has been put on a money premium, and that his fair alma mater has taken to playing favorites. This is especially true of the younger alumni to whom the dollar seems more than a curiously designed symbol. And unfortunately so, for theirs is the greatest enthusiasm, and theirs will be the greatest disappointment. And it is not to be forgotten that...